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shorter or longer than the white-backed and brown-edged ob- 

 tuse or nniticous scale. California; Santa Barbara, Parry, \^o^ 

 Angeles, Wood, San Jose. Bolandcr, Oregon ; Wilkes 308, Mt. 



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Hood, Howelly Lost Lake, Henderson 1,689. Washington; Ska- 

 mania County, Siiksdorf 107. Vancouver Island, Lyall, Macoun 

 25, (1887). This species is closely allied to C. aquatilis^ WahL, 

 and it should stand next that species {^2 a). The place now oc- 

 cupied by C. Barhar(S In my Synopsis (No. 86), should be filled 

 by 



52. — Carex Howellii. 



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Tall and stout (3 to 6 ft. high) ; culm very sharply angled, 

 rough above ; leaves broad and lax and very long, the sheaths 

 covering the base of the culm with a long and papery brown 

 envelope ; staminate spikes two to three, heavy, prominently pe- 

 duncled ; pistillate spikes about four, very long (2 to 4 inches), 

 cernuous or somewhat bent, the upper two on' peduncles a half 

 inch or inch long, and usually staminate above, the lowest very 

 long peduncled (peduncle sometimes six inches long); perigy- 

 nium narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obscurely few-nerved, 

 conspicuously granulated when mature, produced into a slender 

 and entire beak, shorter than the lance-linear, muticous, dull 



brown scale. — Oregon: swamps at the mouth of the Columbia, 



HozvelL The gross habit, aside from more particular characters, 



separate this at once from C. BarharcE. 



53. — Carex Macounii, A. Bennett; Macoun, Cat Can. PL iv. 



147 (1888), V. s. 



C salinuy van? robusta, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 87 (1888). 



I proposed this plant as a variety of Carex salina from the 

 impression that it might prove to be a hybrid, inasmuch as the 

 pengyma \n the specimens are empty, and the plant appears to 

 be variable. It is evident, however, that Carex salina does not 

 occur on the western side of the continent, and that the plant in 

 question is a good species. 



54. — Carex salina, Wahl. Kongl Acad. Handl. xxiv. 165 



(1803), v s. Hb. WahL 

 C salina, var. mntiea, WahL FL Lapp. 246 {l%i2), v. s, Hb. 



WahL; Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and ScL xxii. 88 



(1886). 

 C lanccata, Dewey, Sill. Journ, (L) xxlx. 249 (1836). 



